Tag Archives: Services

By Alex Melamed

Wouldn’t it be nice if your office started to act more like a team player? For employees, that would mean effortless engagement with workplace services. For facility managers, that would mean more engaged and delighted occupants who provide feedback to keep the workplace not just humming but evolving.

IBM TRIRIGA just announced numerous enhancements to the workplace experience in the latest release (10.6.1). Among these enhancements, the all new TRIRIGA Assistant. The TRIRIGA Assistant is a smart, conversational A.I. assistant, which is the same frictionless technology that we all have in our homes, and which is another way to meet the ever-growing expectations of the workforce. This A.I. assistant can help users find and reserve meeting rooms, report maintenance issues correctly, and even locate where a colleague sits. And that is just the beginning.

With the introduction of the TRIRIGA Assistant into the facility management portfolio, IBM has invited Watson to the office. The TRIRIGA Assistant is powered by IBM’s Watson Assistant platform. It’s robust and able to be extended to support custom A.I. skills and capabilities within an enterprise-grade secure cloud…

[Admin: Although it’s not an official IBM offering, here’s an intriguing avatar POC demo from the same Assistant team.]

How can I make my facilities even smarter?

By Kendra DeKeyrel

A.I. also helps deliver a more engaging workplace experience. That’s why we included TRIRIGA Assistant in this new release. It’s a smart, conversational A.I. assistant that allows users to engage with the spaces around them. Imagine how much time employees can save by simply asking an app to reserve a conference room, order catering, submit a service request or locate an office. It’s the same frictionless technology that we all have in our homes, and another way to meet the ever-growing expectations of your workforce…

Does anyone have experience in project integration (data transfer) from an external existing project through any IBM TRIRIGA integration module? Our templates and mapping have been identified, but the question is about reproducing the overall standard when a project is created. This seems hard. In order to have this project consistent in TRIRIGA, we think that we need to be consistent with the following:

Project and direct associations with business objects in perimeter

Associated purchase orders

Budget and their associated cost codes

Financial data and their associated computation

Any help and experience would be great, even if the answer is it’s too hard.

Without detailed knowledge on the user’s part, such as a fundamental knowledge of all of the application functionality, it would really be best to engage IBM Services to implement this integration. It’s not impossible, but it really would need a lot of care.

Is it possible to use Polymer platinum-sw-register (service worker) to return a user message to the client when an attempt to perform a database action (Create, Read, Update, Delete) is not possible due to a lack of network connection? In other words, can I detect when something is cached locally and show a toast message? Has anybody worked with this library for something like this?

I know that platinum elements have been deprecated. Also, it’s worth knowing that IBM is working on offline capabilities for the next platform release.

How do I get access to the new UX apps listed on this page? We are on TRIRIGA 3.5.3 and 10.5.0. But we only see the Space Assessment and Space Management Perceptive apps in our environment.

The Move Me and Group Move applications were added in the Application 10.5.2. The Workplace Services portal, Service Request, and Room Reservation were added in the Application 10.5.3. The apps are delivered in the Application Upgrade. When you upgrade from Application 10.5.0 to 10.5.3, you will see the new apps.

Regarding the setup and breakdown tasks for rooms, the Start and End times of these tasks are only influenced by relevant service assignment matrix (SAM) service level agreements (SLAs), and not by the Room Setup and Breakdown times of the space. If there are no SAM records, the duration of the task is taken as 0 (i.e. the Start and End times are the same).

The Start and End date-times on the reserve work task records that were created for the Setup and Breakdown times on the space were populating the values from SAM (not the reservation). The issue has been resolved to populate the date values from the space by adding a new list value “Use Reservation” to the “Task Assignment Dates Rule” list field on the service plan record, which is used for service plan records that are created for reserve functionality. This will allow the dates to be used from the reservation and not SAM.

Also, the list values “Available Mid-Reservation” and “Available for Entire Reservation” in the “Reserve Service Type” list field on the reserve work task template have been removed, since our current structure does not support these two values for the reservation use case.

Note for upgrade customers: These list values have been removed from the as-shipped application. These values will not be removed through an object migration (OM) package. So, you have to manually remove these values from your environment if they are not being used anywhere.

[Admin: This post is related to the 11.16.16 post about searching for rooms with setup and breakdown times. To see other related posts, use the Reservation tag.]

So I’m trying to figure out the best way to set this up. I have a service plan that has a facilities project template. In the facilities project template, I have three project tasks. In each of those project tasks, I have assigned a specific responsible organization by work group.

So my questions are: If I have three organizations that want to use this same service plan, but they want each of the project tasks to be specific to their responsible organization by work group, how can I just have one generic service plan to satisfy all three organizations? Is there any method to accomplish this requirement in TRIRIGA?

[Updated 06.23.17]

Alright, after some research, I found out the best way to have a generic request class, service plan, facilities project template, and project tasks is by setting up a service agreement for each service provider. And within each service agreement, by creating a service assignment matrix (SAM) for all the possible combinations of request class, customer organization, and location or geography.

Secondly, in the service plan, set the project and task assignment rule to “Auto-Assign to Service Provider”. This will ensure that the workflow fires to check for associated SAM matching records to set the responsible organization for the facilities project record, and the project tasks.

If possible, I would request for a service assignment matrix (SAM) order of precedence and process flow, because it is really confusing functionality. I had to basically deconstruct the workflow to understand which values were being retrieved by the request class, service plan, service agreement, and SAM. Does anyone else have thoughts on the SAM? And tips on how best to maintain it?

[Admin: This post is related to the 11.10.16 post about updating your existing service matrix records, the 09.02.16 post about clarifying how service matrix records are generated, and the 12.11.15 post about finding the process flow diagrams.]

Is it possible to add a child service code in the cost code hierarchy? In the location cost code, I can add another location, project or service code. However, in the service cost code, there is no further sub-level hierarchy. I presume one of the workflows needs some altering, but I’m not sure which one?

In the TRIRIGA as-shipped application configuration, service codes aren’t configured to have sub-levels (children). This isn’t configured in workflows, but rather in Form Builder. See the second tab labeled “Includes/Forms”. In the screenshot, you can see what the location cost code allows to be included under it. On the Service Request form, you can see that as-shipped applications do not allow children. You can allow this with a customization, but realize that anything you want to do with the child records will need to be configured in workflows as well.